Medicago truncatula (E)-β-ocimene synthase is induced by insect herbivory with corresponding increases in emission of volatile ocimene

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 416-425

  Navia Giné, Wayra G ^a   Yuan, Joshua S ^b,c   Mauromoustakos, Andy ^a   Murphy, J Brad ^a   Chen, Feng ^b   Korth, Kenneth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jasmonate; Legume; Medicago; Ocimene; Terpene; Volatiles

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; BETA-OCIMENE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DITERPENE; GERANYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOENZYME; OCIMENE; PLANT RNA; PYROPHOSPHATE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALKENES; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIPHOSPHATES; DITERPENES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; ISOENZYMES; LARVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPODOPTERA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

HEXAPODA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

EID: 63449134916     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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